Im Dickicht der Stadt (In the thicket of the city)
The Residenztheater and the Climate School of LMU Munich invite you on a transdisciplinary expedition into the urban wilderness of our city. As part of a long-term collaboration, members of the theatre ensemble and scientists from the LMU are jointly developing artistic formats that explore the relationship between humans and nature in a variety of ways.
The Wittelsbacher Wiese directly behind the Marstall is not only transformed into a stage, but also into a summer bar with drinks, music and birdsong, which is open for you before and after the performances.
The DICKICHT in the immediate vicinity of the Marstall is an undefined green space, habitat and ecosystem. A blind spot in urban planning. Through the DICKICHT, we are questioning the concept of what we have generally called «nature» or «city» up to now. What we have perceived as urban space and what as non-space. A spatial laboratory for discourse, performance and experiments on the threshold between art and science is being created here. In the uncontrolled wilderness, a place for a change of perspective, for encounters and new forms of communication is being created.
We want to understand the DICKICHT. We want to get to know the non-human counterparts that inhabit it. We let trees, woodlice, fungi and CO2 speak and tell their stories. We experiment, perceive and listen to what these new protagonists have to tell us - what will we answer them?
The DICKICHT sees itself as a place of encounter and exchange. It is a performance, discourse space and bar. It is inside and outside. Intimate and public. It poses the question of togetherness. It is a place of co-habitation and spatiality.
#1 LISTENING
In the first part of IM DICKICHT DER STADT we want to put our ear to the ground. To the tree. We want to listen to the birds and hear the grass grow. Sound artist Diane Barbé is an expert in the sound of the non-human world. With the help of specially developed contact microphones, hydrophones and amplifier systems, the water in the cells of the trees, the music of the crickets and the burrowing of the worms are made audible. The microphonised DICKICHT creates the acoustic stage for the actor Vincent Glander and the biologist Maria Stockenreiter.
Artistic directionMaximilian Grünewald, Alexander Eisenach
Live sound designDiane Barbé
Cast Vincent Glander, Maria Stockenreiter
